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The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa cabinet in Pakistan, decided to lift the over two decades long ban on forest harvesting besides managing forests along scientific lines in line with a working plan made by the government. Read more in November 2014 edition of the Monthly Overview on State of Environment, Pakistan

Bangladesh alongwith Sierra Leone and South Sudan led a ranking of countries facing extreme risks as a result of climate change, exacerbating the chances of civil conflict, according to a study by Maplecroft. Read more in November 2014 edition of the Monthly Overview on State of Environment,Bangladesh.

ADB, in partnership with Bhutan's Royal Court of Justice, convened the Second South Asia Judicial Roundtable on Environmental Justice to discuss shared environmental challenges, common experiences, and

At a time the government has planned to control illegal mining and quarrying in the southern plains in view of the deteriorating ecosystem, the crusher industrialists in the Morang district have continued

The ecological balance as well as the haor’s nearby vast track of land and a flood protection dyke has been facing extinction due to the ongoing misdeed. After of gap of several months in the face of action

Illegal sand lifting goes unabated at six points of Meghna river in Munshiganj to meet the growing demands of construction industry and to fill low lands posing threat to the ecology of the area and causing

Several influential quarters have allegedly continued to lift sand at different spots in Moulvibazar’s Srimangal, defying the existing government restriction on sand lifting and transportation.
Moreover,

Despite a ban imposed on sand lifting from the tea gardens, a section of unscrupulous people are unlawfully extracting sand and cutting hill trees in an unplanned manner in the district. As a result, two

The Committee on Environment Protection of the Legislature-Parliament has criticised the government’s decision to ease the ban on crusher industries from mining and exporting of stones, sand and aggregates